[ caught In between ] b.s.: 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006

Thursday, August 17, 2006
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  1. {08172006}
  2. {08:01:50 AM}
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  1. Billionaire backs youth teams
    
    (Dallas Morning News)
  2. [H]e worries about whether the boys are getting too much, too soon – whether it will be a letdown when they graduate to junior high and yellow buses and hand-me-down uniforms.
    
    Third-graders flying in private jets to play in hoops tourneys, oh my. It must be nice to have priorities when raising your children.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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  1. {08092006}
  2. {08:07:41 PM}
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  1. Technorati's Numbers are Wrong
    
    (Feed Blog)
  2. Do the math. I like this post-within-a-post: "When one looks at population statistics, one doesn't count all the dead people."
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  1. 08:07:41 PM
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  1. {08092006}
  2. {06:58:05 PM}
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  1. Web 2.0? It’s the same old media
    
    (The Internet is People blog)
  2. Unless it really is world-beating, what are the odds of your content rising to the top and catapaulting you into web-media superstardom? When it comes to your content, yes, you are in control; however, when it comes to what everyone else in the world does with it, you aren’t.
    
    Amen to that; a brilliant and thoughtful post that really speaks to what the Web is devolving into, circa 2006. All this Web 2.0 talk, spoken by a startingly homogenous group of men, anxious for their big payday when ___insert_name_of_big_media_company_here___ buys them out, just sounds like the next bubble to me. In search of greedy ends, a lot of potential is being missed.
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  1. 06:58:05 PM
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Thursday, August 03, 2006
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  1. {08032006}
  2. {11:21:31 AM}
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  1. Madonna Speaks About Her Big, Big Project
    
    (TIME.com)
  2. Malawi, a Pennsylvania-sized country in southeast Africa, has four things in abundance: AIDS, malaria, drought and tobacco (its major crop). It also has a functioning democracy and little conflict. To date, therefore, it has not attracted much attention from the rest of the world. But that's about to change. Malawi is about to be hit by a force that has thrown much more robust countries for a loop. Her name is Madonna.
    
    I applaud her apparently well-meaning intentions, but I just have a gut-feeling that this is going to end badly. Celebrities think that they can just throw money at a problem, show up for few photo shoots, and then -- voila -- all problems are solved. (Thanks, Bono. Like Africa needs more well-meaning Western people; let's look at the historical record on that!) That's how it happens in the movies. But it doesn't work like that in real life. Especially when you're talking about problems that have been brewing for decades and generations. Does Madonna think AIDS and malaria happened to Malawi just yesterday? Please. Money and media attention are not enough, they're just sparks, at the most. Total commitment is required; so, will Madonna move to Malawi and live there for, say, five to ten years, to see her program launched? Yeah, I didn't think so either. Entertainers should stick to what they do best: entertain. Madonna is taking her name, Madonna, a little too literally, because she ain't no saint!
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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  1. {08012006}
  2. {10:26:07 PM}
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  1. What the Internet really looks like
    
    (Fortune/CNN.com)
  2. Huge diesel generators, enormous electrical switches and fat, concrete pipes [that] all occupy big swaths of space in data centers. Their purpose? To power and cool the vast number of computers, known as servers.
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